Posted on October 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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The Guardian consulted the right oddsmakers — Canadian poet, essayist, and translator Anne Carson has been announced as this year's Nobel Prize in Literature winner (The Guardian, The Associated Press, Literary Hub, The New York Times).
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We also learned the winners of this year's Kirkus Prize: Kin by Tayari Jones won for fiction; Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast by Pamela Colloff, for nonfiction; and Anger Is Only a Shadow by Elizabeth Acevedo, for young readers' literature (Literary Hub).
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Here are the rest of the biggest literary controversies of the past fifteen years — and they are real doozies (Book Riot).
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